Privacy Policy

Effective Date: January 29, 2016

The following information comprises the Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy"), which informs you of any intended uses of any information you submit to HipComic, LLC. ("HipComic", "us", or "we"). This includes any and all information, including "Personal Information" such as name, email address, credit card information, and all other public, non-public and anonymous information we collect from you by any method or means.

Acceptance of Privacy Policy

By using the Site or any Service we provide, you ("you", "the user") or the person accessing our site and services, including any other person or company whose behalf you are accessing our site and services for, are agreeing to this Privacy Policy, as well as our Terms of Use, which is made available by clicking on "Terms" in the footer of our website. This Privacy Policy should be checked regularly for updates, and your continued use of the site and services indicates your continued acceptance of this and any future Privacy Policy. If you do not agree or consent to this Privacy Policy, immediately discontinue the use of our site and do not use any of our services offered through our site.

Collection of Personal Information

How information is collected

When you interact with our site in anyway, including but not limited to: creating an account, registering information, subscribing to emails, contact us or making purchases through the site, we ask you for Personal Information. HipComic may keep information relating to how you use the site, including, but not limited to, what pages you view and transactions you attempt or complete. Cookies and other related technology may be utilized to collect information about your interaction with our site. Personal Information may also be collected through third parties in order to give us additional information to enhance the service we provide you.

What information is collected

Email Address: Provided to us in conjunction with registering an account, or through contacting us in any way.

Other Contact Information: Including but not limited to: name, mailing address, telephone numbers, fax numbers, social media and other third-party username and account information.

Demographics: Any demographic or psychographic information including but not limited to : age, gender, income, location and social relationships.

Financial Information: Credit and Debit card information, as well as any other information related to payments and transactions.

Browsing and Transaction Information: Including but not limited to any way in which you interact with our site, or make purchases on our site.

Use of Information

In general, your Personal Information is used for the following purposes

Internal record keeping

Improving, Analyzing and Tracking our Site and Services

Marketing and Promotion

Emails and social media contact

Prevent fraud

Enforce our Terms of Use

Corporate Obligations

Provide help and support to you, our employees and our merchants

Provide help or support to our merchants or business partners

Disclosure of Information

You may request details of personal information, which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please contact us using the information provided on our Contact Us page.

At any time, you may access or update your account and contact information by accessing your HipComic Members Area > My Account page.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us and we will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

Security

We take the protection and security of your Personal Information very seriously. We use a variety of technological and industry standard processes and procedures to help safe guard this information. Financial information will be stored using industry standard encryption technology. However, you understand that no process or procedures by any company can ever fully eliminate all risks associated with your Personal Information.

Third Party Privacy and External Links

Our site may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Website. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here. Please note that this is in no way related to any information we collect from you. We do not share any of your Personal Information we collect with these companies.

Modification of this Privacy Policy

HipComic reserves the right at all times to discontinue or modify this Privacy Policy as we reason necessary or desirable at any time. In the event that we make a modification to our site, which will significantly affect your use of the site or our service, we will notify you through the email address registered to your account and/or by posting a notice of such change on our site. In the event that there are any changes to the Privacy Policy, they will become effective immediately for any continued use of the site, and new activity on the site, but will not become retroactive. These changes will be effective immediately for any new user to our site and for all activity, which takes place after the Privacy Policy, has changed. We strongly suggest that you continuously revisit our Privacy Policy occasionally in order to ensure that you are informed of the current Privacy Policy for our site. Your use of our site following an update to our Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of the modified Privacy Policy.